Mufti Qaiser Farooq, one of the prominent leaders of the Pakistan terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was gunned down by “unknown men” in Karachi, Pakistan media reported.
One of Hafiz Saeed’s close friends and the instigator of the terrorist attack in Mumbai on November 26th, 2016 was Qaiser Farooq.
Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper, quoting police sources, reported that 30-year-old Qaiser Farooq was shot in a “targeted attack” near a religious institution in the Samanabad area on Saturday.
Farooq was sent to a hospital after being shot in the back, where he passed away while receiving medical attention.
CCTV footage, claimed to be of the killing of Farooq, is circulating on social media. India Today could not independently verify the authenticity of the video.